I think it's important to know that the right wing does not have a monopoly on patriotism, service, veterans, or what it means to be an American.

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The NPR tribute to Chuck Yeager concluded with the theme for The Right Stuff, and now I’m unexpectedly crying this morning.

A network comedy I’ll actually watch. Glad to see a throwback to Enlisted, and really happy to see special immigrant visa recipients hitting the mainstream. No One Left Behind yahoo.com/entertainment/…

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I’ve been bursting into happy tears every ten minutes for the past hour. It’s been such a long journey since the Javits Center four years ago. We’re wiser, humbler, and I hope we cherish our democracy even more now.

There’s what was framed to me as an Army adage that’s basically a quad chart (only the Army would make adage in quad chart form) about leaders being lazy vs. smart. I remember the substance, but can someone remind me of the pithiness of how it goes?

This is a familiar cycle. The Army always has to be told to do the missions it dislikes (you never see a Symmetric Warfare Group, or a Warkeeping and Instability Operations Institute). It lasts as long as senior leaders force it and then fades into not quite memory.

No longer a RAND researcher, but I'll always love the quirky curiosity that makes my former colleagues so wonderful.

Turn it upside down and it's an alien reading Torah. You're welcome.

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I don’t know how to talk about this article. But it’s amazing, as is Elana.

I may not be the best judge, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen in print extremism as a threat to Army cohesion.

I implore you, if you write things, please stop capitalizing words just because you think they are important. Just because it's your Big Idea doesn't mean it's a proper noun. Or that we are German now.

When a great twitter conversation leads to a cool article. A really interesting “yes, and” to the NYT piece.

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